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Title
Baby Peter and his father, Nigeria, 1934
Creator
Emily Godfrey
Date Created and/or Issued
1929/1939
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Rights Information
Centre for the Study of World Christianity
Contact the repository for details.
The University of Edinburgh School of Divinity, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh EH1 2LX, United Kingdom
divinity-CSWC@ed.ac.uk
http://www.cswc.div.ed.ac.uk/collections/
Description
Black and white photograph showing a baby cared for by the Methodist Missionary Society, formerly the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society. The baby has been named Peter, and is held by his father at the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital run by the mission in southeast Nigeria. The caption to this image reads: "Baby Peter and his father, 1934." This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara hospital.
Format
black-and-white photographs
Identifier
IMP-CSCNWW20-1-1-33.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-77718
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-CSCNWW20-1-1-33.jpg
Subject
Children
Missionary work
Missions
Hospitals
Infants
Fathers
Primitive Methodist Missionary Society
Methodist Missionary Society
Group portraits
Time Period
1929/1939
Place
Abia
Africa
Nigeria
Umuahia
religious facilities
Source
CSCNWW20/1/1/33 [File]
Relation
Emily Godfrey collection; Box 1; First book of photographs (CSCNWW20-1-1)
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from the Centre for the Study of World Christianity, University of Edinburgh, U.K., ca.1900-ca.1940s

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